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Chipmaker meets expectations
News The chipmaker's second-quarter net income totalled $32m, a nine cent per share profit, on revenue of $1.3bn for the quarter, which ended on 27 June. On average, 28 analysts polled by Thompson First Call expected AMD to report a nine cents per share...
[July 15, 2004, 14:35]
Bluetooth chipmaker buys into GPS
News CSR has until now been known primarily as a Bluetooth chipmaker. A UK chip manufacturer is promising low-cost GPS for mobile phones in the near future, following its acquisition of two firms in the GPS field.
[January 15, 2007, 12:32]
European chipmaker strengthens Indian presence
News European chipmaker STMicroelectronics on Thursday opened its third design and development centre in India. The chipmaker already has approximately 1,400 researchers and chip designers in India. The new centre, an extension of the company's existing...
[February 20, 2004, 10:40]
Motorola buys wireless chipmaker
News Motorola has bought wireless chipmaker XtremeSpectrum, in a move that could let it jump to market with superfast wireless broadband technology -- but could also give it a standards headache. The company said on Monday that it had purchased...
[November 11, 2003, 11:45]
Chipmaker TSMC sees drop in quarterly profits
News Major contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co has announced that its fourth-quarter income dropped 64 percent year-on-year, blaming a worldwide recession and a sharp drop in demand. The Taiwanese manufacturer makes semiconductors...
[January 23, 2009, 15:12]
Chipmaker gets a jump on safer wireless
News Atheros was the first chipmaker to begin shipping silicon using the 802.11a standard, another approved wireless networking standard. American company Altheros Communications has begun shipping the first chipset to run part of the new 802.11g fast...
[March 12, 2002, 17:09]
Microtune doubles damages against rival chipmaker
News Chipmaker Microtune announced that it has won double the damages it sought in a patent infringement case against rival Broadcom. A jury found that a Broadcom tuner chip infringed on a patent owned by Microtune.
[August 18, 2003, 14:30]
Chipmaker wants to revive the free PC
News ZF Linux Devices is attempting to resurrect the free PC movement by cutting costs like never before. The 5-year-old company, which makes a low-cost microprocessor called the MachZ, has developed a blueprint for an inexpensive PC called the Z-Port.
[February 14, 2001, 8:47]
Transmeta sold to video-chipmaker Novafora
News Transmeta, a company that once hoped to rival Intel and AMD to power portable computers, announced on Monday that it would sell itself to Novafora for $255.6m in cash. Novafora said it hopes to use Transmeta's people and technology in its video...
[November 18, 2008, 9:01]
iPod chipmaker plans to cash in
News More recently, Carlsen was CFO at laptop chipmaker Transmeta. PortalPlayer, the Silicon Valley company whose chip powers the iPod, is looking to play its tune for Wall Street. PortalPlayer filed registration papers last week with the Securities and...
[August 12, 2004, 8:50]
Linux: A chipmaker's best friend
News In a sign of how strategic Linux has become, AMD and Intel are angling to lure open-source programmers to their future chip designs. Linux--with a strong developer community and a flexibility that allows the Unix clone to run on numerous chips--has...
[September 3, 2001, 8:41]
UK chipmaker ships 10-millionth Bluetooth chip
News Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) said it has shipped its 10-millionth Bluetooth chip, the latest indication of the wireless technology's gradual rise into the mainstream. However, Bluetooth's ongoing success is increasingly being called into doubt by...
[May 29, 2003, 16:32]
AMD to open third processor factory in 2004
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) plans to open a third microprocessor fabrication facility by 2004, but will likely share the space with another chipmaker to cut costs. The Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker is laying the groundwork for a Fab 35...
[January 9, 2001, 8:47]
Linux gains virus armour
News Linux seller Red Hat and chipmaker Intel released prototype Linux software this week to support a security technology designed to curtail the spread of viruses. Programmers working for the chipmaker have contributed to several other Linux projects...
[June 7, 2004, 9:10]
Intel opens XScale app lab
News The chipmaker opened a new lab this week to help software developers increase performance of applications that run on portable devices using its XScale PXA processor. With all three labs, the chipmaker expects to work directly with hundreds of...
[August 15, 2002, 7:55]
AMD vs Intel: The chips are down
News This week the gloves came off in the struggle between up-and-coming chipmaker AMD and market leader Intel. AMD filed a lawsuit against Intel in the US courts accusing the chipmaker of anticompetitive practices.
[June 29, 2005, 13:15]
Latest AMD snub cuts both ways
News Struggling PC maker Gateway will part ways with chipmaker AMD once again. Given AMD's off-and-on relationship with the PC seller over the past few years, AMD representatives believe the chipmaker will win future business from Gateway.
[September 26, 2001, 8:55]
CSR benefits from Bluetooth future
News UK chipmaker CSR announced on Tuesday it enjoyed a bumper 2005, and was dominating the Bluetooth market. However CSR's shares dropped by 14 percent after the chipmaker predicted it would achieve sales of up to £77m in the first quarter of 2006...
[March 1, 2006, 16:35]
AMD's Athlon plays catch-up with Intel
News The chipmaker will introduce, at a minimum, an Athlon XP 2400+ and an Athlon XP 2600+ for desktop PCs toward the end of the month, sources familiar with AMD's plans said. The chipmaker is considering boosting the speed of Athlon XP's 266MHz front...
[August 19, 2002, 7:44]
AMD takes on myth of megahertz
News Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices will start prodding consumers to jump over the megahertz gap next month. The clock speed issue has dogged AMD before, but the chipmaker intends to address it head-on this time with a marketing campaign that will...
[August 9, 2001, 9:33]
